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  UP's new jail manual: Married women inmates can wear 'mangalsutra', observe Karva Chauth

  India | August 20, 2022 12:00 IST

  UP jail manual: The new jail manual has adopted a more humane and sensitive approach towards jail inmates, especially women, said state minister Dharamveer Prajapati.

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  West Bengal govt considers premature release of 63 life convicts in view of Covid-19

  India | August 03, 2021 7:15 IST

  Premature release of 61 male life convicts, aged more than 60 years of age, and 2 female life convicts, aged more than 55 years of age has been approved by the Bengal govt.

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  21 UP convicts refuse parole, feel 'safer' in jail

  India | May 30, 2021 10:04 IST

  UP prisons have so far released 10,123 under trials and convicts on bail and parole in compliance with the Supreme Court directives.

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  Ateeq Ahmed case: Jail authorities questioned in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria

  June 22, 2019 9:22 IST

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) action came a week after it registered a case against criminal-turned-politician and former Samajwadi Party MP Ateeq Ahmed and 15 others.

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  Keeping rules at bay, Sasikala was allowed 23 visits during four months in Bengaluru jail: RTI

  Politics | July 20, 2017 8:10 IST

  The RTI query filed by activist T Narasimha Murthy that asks why proper procedure was not followed in allowing visitors to meet Sasikala, it was found that she met as many as 48 visitors during these 23 visits

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  DIG Roopa, who blew lid off ‘VIP treatment’ to Sasikala in Bengaluru jail, transferred to Traffic dept

  India | July 17, 2017 14:40 IST

  DIG Roopa pointed to speculation about jail officials, including her senior and DGP (prisons) HN Sathyanarayana Rao, having received a bribe of Rs 2 crore to provide special treatment to AIADMK general secretary Sasikala

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  CCTV records of VIP treatment given to Sasikala missing: DIG Roopa submits second report

  Politics | July 16, 2017 13:44 IST

  In the new report, DIG Roopa has highlighted the state of affairs pertaining to maintenance of the central prison, and alleged that crucial CCTV recordings of VIP treatment given to Sasikala appear to have gone missing

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  Sarabjit case: No action taken against jail authorities

  World | May 01, 2013 12:38 IST

  Lahore, May 1: Reports about the suspension of several Pakistani jail officials after the brutal assault on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh last week have turned out to be an eyewash as authorities are